It took me some 6 hours to do it, I missed a couple of spawns when I was out of group and got there late, but in the four kills I was in a raid group for, we seen two whole mounts.
Great game Blizzard.
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Dang, a rare mount being rare
How dare blizzard do this thing that’s been done forever
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Ermahgerd Blizzard!!!
Nah a 1% raid drop is nothing compared to the 1% drop rate on top of the 1% spawn rate. That’s like 0.0001% chance, it’s been like this once before with an RNG chance of seeing a rare and an RNG chance of getting the mount.
Worse this one because you can’t solo it, and even in groups of up to 8 I am seeing them not get 500 points. There has never been a time where a rare is impossible to spawn solo, ever.
Yeh, it’s been like this forever has it?
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The drop rate of the mount from the rare is already 1%. Why does the spawn chance of the rare have to be 1-2% also? Layers upon layers of RNG
On the PTR it was a 100% spawn chance then that one Dev obsessed with RNG nuked the spawn rate to 1% to satisfy a fetish.
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that’s better odds than Poundfist.
I could not imagine doing any of this just for a mount
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Back in my day you had to camp a rare for 16hrs for a chance at a mount.
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Lol, just lol.
You gotta be trolling right man? Poundfist is a 100% chance at getting the mount.
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But you can’t even camp this one is the point. Because you need groups of people to try to get it to spawn. That’s their beef.
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Yeh great I was there too, and no you didn’t have to camp for 16 hours, you just had to be lucky to be there when it spawned, or find a dead server that had it up outside of peak hours, I know all about it.
This, this crap is by far worse. You HAVE to participate, you have to do the scummy event, you have to hope that you don’t end up spending 2 hours each time just shovelling crap AND you need to have enough people to do it, then you have to hope you also have another miracle to get the mount.
Those “OMG I camped this rare for 10 hours a day for 3 months”, when the mount itself was a 100% drop rate is nothing compared to this.
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I got the green mech mount from my first sifted box. I spent like 9k cans on 28 boxes and only needed 1(lucky). I also got 3 of those green mini T-rex battle pets out of 3 additional boxes. The rest of the boxes I just got gold and crystals.
All I know is its probably going to take me 6 months to obtain the scrap pile mount…if I’m lucky.
Based on the chatter I am seeing in the zone, both in general chat and the groups I am joining, it will be about a month or less before people give up and you won’t even be able to get 500 points to spawn the rare.
They have to change it when it gets closer to that time, change it both in how it spawns and the drop rate. They did the same thing with the horse in the Maw, they made it a one a day drop rate and upped the drop rate, I can see them doing something similar here in a few weeks time.
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Judging by the renown unlocks for scrap, it might be soloable later on, I could be wrong though.
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We’re used to camping spawns that don’t move and were you can go afk for hours. Having to move around is a lot of work and bored people can start to become serious trolls (putting down mage portals or Jania locket portals that people click on so they don’t get to tag the rare, for example).
I hope, but I doubt it. They would need to increase the scrap rate by like 300% and I doubt they are going to do that, because the later renown, the ones that help you unlock the vendor, that won’t help, the blue stuff that falls from the sky is better than the cola from the vendor.
The one thing also with the other garbage rare like this one (The three ZM rares) and every other rare in existence, is that you can list a group for them.
The ZM Mawrat one was bad, RNG on it spawning and RNG on getting the mount, but it spawned in the one spot with a 1 minute timer to kill it so you could find groups where it was already spawning.
You are right, having to run around, and not just until you find something, but run around every 2-3 minutes is a big nuisance for something that has a low chance to spawn and drop the items you want.
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it hasnt even been a full week yet, and its a RARE mount, the entitlement y’all are having over a rare mount is insane
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It’s got nothing to do with the mount.
It’s the fact we know that in about a month if nothing changes we will never even get a chance to spawn the rare, let alone get the mount.
It’s the principle of the matter that Blizzard is putting a rare that has a low low % chance to spawn on group content that has to be done as group content, content that it took them mere hours to nerf (buff?) to make it near impossible for even smaller groups to spawn. Then once you spawn it, if you can spawn it, you have a low low % chance to see the mount or pet.
I wouldn’t be so upset at this if it was a rare that was harder to trigger the spawn event, but had a guaranteed spawn, or was near impossible to spawn, but had a guaranteed mount. Double dipping RNG with RNG in group content is terrible.
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It’s the 1st week of content and the mounts are still going to be there in 6 months.
OK now imagine a dungeon or raid from DF that you cannot finish. Each time you walk in you have to do some event to spawn each boss, but you can’t solo the events because they were made for groups, you can’t go back to farm the achievements, mogs, pets or mounts because you are solo and can never complete the requirements to spawn the boss.
So, you invite 3 friends, you now spend 2 hours spawning one boss, that boss now has a 1% chance to drop an item. Imagine the outcry, imagine if I told those players “Quit crying and come back later”, that’s how it is with this rare.
Sure the content will be there later, but who in their right mind is going to want to join a group to spend 1-2 hours to spawn a single enemy that now also has a 1% to maybe drop the item you want.
See the difference here when compared to say Fyrakk, is that at the end of TWW Fyrakk will be solo possible, this event, unless they make some changes, unless the renown track gives a 200% or so boost to shovelling will never be possible to solo, you could come back in 6 years and it won’t make a difference because the shovelling speed and how much you need to shovel won’t change with your character level and iLVL.